Alexis Madrigal

Alexis Madrigal (born 1982) is an American journalist, and the author of two books. He has co-hosted Forum, the daily public affairs program on California Public Radio for KQED in San Francisco since 2021.

Madrigal graduated from Harvard University in 2004.

Career In 2010, Madrigal began working for The Atlantic. In 2014, he was promoted to deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com. He joined Fusion later in the year as part of a "big-name hiring spree" for the new media channel, "one of the hot-shot journalists on which Fusion is pinning its hopes." In March 2020, he started the COVID Tracking Project, a collaborative effort to track the spread of COVID-19 within the US, with Robinson Meyer and a team of volunteers. He has also written for Wired.

Madrigal's first book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology, was published in 2011. In 2014, he spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival alongside Tony Fadell as a member of a panel discussing "A New and Promising Energy Future". In 2017, Madrigal produced and hosted an 8-part audio documentary about containerization, titled Containers, with a special focus on the Port of Oakland. That subject is a core issue explored in his second book, The Pacific Circuit, which was published in 2025.

In 2024, Madrigal served as a judge for that year's American Mosaic Journalism Prize.

Personal life

Madrigal is married and has two children.

Books